Question:

I have downloaded Dropbox manually on many instances on Ubuntu systems.Today I tried to use it on an Ubuntu 12.04 server edition, so I used the command wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" in my home directory.The problem is, the command crashes, at the moment the message "HTTP request sent, awaiting response" is last shown, and starts throwing random characters on screen, until I force it to stop. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance. Note:I'm executing this through putty from a Windows OS.

Solution:1

That's because -O - tells wget to write the file content to stdout (your terminal) instead of saving it to a file.